THE ROLE OF EXTENSION IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT by Ifeoma Irohibe Department of Agricultural Extension‚ University of Nigeria‚ Nsukka Agriculture is the science of cultivating crops and rearing animals for the benefit of man and also includes other processes such as processing‚ storage and marketing of agricultural produce. The agricultural sector is essential in the economic development and poverty alleviation drive of many sectors. The importance of this sector is more pronounced in developing
Premium Agriculture Agricultural extension Poverty
obligations and also hindering economic growth. African economies have not performed well‚ partly because of the increased outflow of resources to service debt obligations and partly because the necessary macro-economic adjustment has remained elusive for most of the countries in the continent. INTRODUCTION The Nigerian President‚ Olusegun Obasanjo‚ had waged a six-year war on debt cancellation. He had to hire an ex-World Bank official‚ Nigerian-born Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Finance Minister to prosecute
Premium Debt Economics Nigeria
ofIdentify and explain the characteristics of the 4 sectors of the economy. And find evidence of changes in the industrial sectors in the UK in the last 5 - 15 years. The United Kingdom’s economy is made up in descending order of size of the economies of England‚ Scotland‚ Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK has a partially regulated free market economy‚ somewhere between the US and continental Europe. Based on market exchange rates‚ the UK is today the sixth largest economy in the world and the third
Premium Industry Economy Tertiary sector of the economy
INTRODUCTION The Nigerian economy has several activities sectors which include agriculture (crops)‚ livestock‚ forestry‚ fishing‚ manufacturing‚ crude petroleum mining and quarrying‚ utilities‚ building and construction‚ transport‚ communication‚ wholesale and retail trades‚ hotels and restaurants‚ finance and insurance‚ real estate and business services‚ housing‚ producers of government services and community‚ social and personal services. However‚ with the advent of the crude petroleum sector
Premium Economics Nigeria Monetary policy
Name: Kyangchong Sambo Candidate Number: BU/13C/BS/0760 Date of Submission: 25TH March 2014 Course Title: History of Ideas‚ Science and Society 1 Course Code: GEN 102 Tutor: Dr. Udo Osisiogu WHAT IS REVOLUTION? Revolution like most English words is gotten from a Latin word “revolution”‚ which means “a turn around”. Revolution can be described or defined in so many ways‚ but basically it is a rudimentary alteration in power that happens during a short period of time
Premium England United Kingdom Scotland
psychological‚ economic‚ or religious—or any combination of these. Some countries have proven to be particularly susceptible to terrorism at certain times‚ as Italy and West Germany were during the 1970s. Characteristics of Terrorism Planning and organization: All terrorists share one characteristic: They never commit actions randomly or
Premium
technology has become an important component of an overall strategy in banks. Writing on new technologies and performance enhancement in the banking industry‚ (Ovia‚ 1997‚ p.2) stated that the new technologies have created unparalleled wired economy. The transfer of money from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’ has resulted in turning the actual money into bits and bytes through satellite transponders‚ fibre optic cables or regular telephone lines. Banks utilize computer based systems as well as telecommunication
Premium Bank
www.ccsenet.org/gjhs Global Journal of Health Science Vol. 4‚ No. 1; January 2012 The Effects of HIV/AIDS Scourge on Production and Income among Rural Households in Adamawa State of Nigeria Iya‚ I. B.‚ Purokayo‚ S. G.‚ & Gabdo Yusuf Department of Economics Federal University of Technology‚ Yola‚ Nigeria Received: October 12‚ 2011 doi:10.5539/gjhs.v4n1p245 Abstract The paper investigates the determinants and the impact of HIV/AIDS on households in Adamawa State. 120 respondents affected with HIV/AIDS
Premium AIDS Household income in the United States Per capita income
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ROLE IN GREEN ECONOMY. Green Economy: We depend on the earth’s natural resources that have a limited capacity to regenerate and renew itself‚ forcing us to design an economic model which is good in conserving energy‚ natural resources‚ reducing emissions‚ reducing pollution and at the same time providing jobs to people. This kind of a design leads to the Green Economy which is a clean energy economy. It aims in providing: Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy
Premium World energy resources and consumption Renewable energy Sustainability
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY To be able transform into an industrialize economy; an underdeveloped economy has to be privately and commercially developed. The importance of establishing public enterprises or corporation began during the 19th century with the British telecom in 1884 under the telecommunication act and gained a worldwide support in Britain thereafter. Several nations particularly those in Africa‚ have come to embrace the principle as a way of eliminating
Premium Economics